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Re: Opinions Wanted: v3 GUI Prototype

From: Ken Paulsen <Ken.Paulsen_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:20:43 -0800

Yes, thanks again for the input. I may just have to use the Sudoku idea
for an add-on widget for a JavaOne demo... ;)

Thanks!

Ken


Judy Tang wrote:
> Hi Kristian and Survivant, Thanks so much for your input. Great to
> hear from you :-)
>
> Hope we can get more input to Ken's email. Thanks Ken !
>
> Judy
>
> Survivant 00 wrote:
>> :)
>>
>> and don't forget to be able to add JMX monitoring in one of the
>> dashboard..
>>
>> I could get something like that
>> Tab1 : Deploy application
>> tab2 : Monitoring few applications
>> tab3 : logs
>> tab4 : sudoku :)
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/2/25 Ken Paulsen <Ken.Paulsen_at_sun.com <mailto:Ken.Paulsen_at_sun.com>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, that's something we will be investigating (notice there is a
>> dashboard link in one of the menus). No promises, but you may get
>> your wish...
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>> Survivant 00 wrote:
>>> one thing that I would like to have is a personalized dashboard.
>>> Like google IGoogle page. You can add gadget to the main page and
>>> move them.
>>>
>>> Like that I could create few main pages accessible with tabs and I
>>> customized my views.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/2/25 Ken Paulsen <Ken.Paulsen_at_sun.com
>>> <mailto:Ken.Paulsen_at_sun.com>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Kristian,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the great feedback! To answer your question
>>> regarding searching... currently we only search tags (not the
>>> content seen on any screens). Implementing a tag-search is
>>> very easy and straight-forward, searching localized content is
>>> much harder.
>>>
>>> Our thought for tags was that pages could be tagged with some
>>> default tags. The user can then add / remove tags they would
>>> like to see, for example I might put "ken" as a tag on the 5
>>> or 6 pages I like to visit. Then the search would allow me to
>>> find those pages in 1 click. Tags might be task-oriented
>>> (monday tasks), content oriented (applications), or user
>>> oriented (ken).... depending on how you'd like to use them.
>>>
>>> We also plan to have a "settings..." page (the link is in the
>>> menu). This page will allow you to turn off features like
>>> tagging which might otherwise get in your way. :) The sliding
>>> panel on the right is supposed to remember to stay off the
>>> screen when you close it also -- that's a current bug.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for the feedback.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>>> Kristian Rink wrote:
>>>> Hi Ken, *;
>>>>
>>>> a few comments as I have stumbled across this earlier,
>>>> already... :)
>>>>
>>>> Ken Paulsen schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>> Here are some things we are particularly interested in
>>>>> feedback on:
>>>>> * Do you like/dislike the menus?
>>>>>
>>>> Pretty good. Actually, the menu structure looks rather
>>>> straightforward and
>>>> quite task-oriented, in my opinion way more "logical" and
>>>> consistent than
>>>> the current tree-view navigation.
>>>>
>>>> That said: I liked the tree in GFv2 but maybe, if included
>>>> in v3, it should
>>>> be pruned a little - in my opinion it is too big right now,
>>>> some things
>>>> could eventually be arranged in a better way (like, in
>>>> example, having just
>>>> a tag "applications" to contain everything including
>>>> webapps, ejb modules
>>>> and the like in a table-like fashion explaining what kind
>>>> of type each app
>>>> is?).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> * Do you like/dislike the tagging feature?
>>>>>
>>>> Well... so far tagging seems all around, but honestly
>>>> speaking, personally I
>>>> don't see much use in that feature, around here. Given a
>>>> strictly outlined,
>>>> usable, sane menu structure easily allowing for having all
>>>> features just a
>>>> click away, I am not sure why to eventually add even more
>>>> complexity by
>>>> introducing a navigation hierarchy / structure of my own... ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Of course all other comments are also welcome (what's
>>>>> missing? what do
>>>>> you really like? what do you dislike? etc.).
>>>> At first a "visual" thing: I would kinda scale down the big
>>>> blue page header
>>>> ("Glassfish V3 Prelude Administration Console"). Sure, it's
>>>> not that big,
>>>> but at least on my notebook display (1280x800), that's
>>>> quite a big area on
>>>> the screen not really containing any meaningful
>>>> information. Having this
>>>> header half as high still should be sufficient IMHO.
>>>>
>>>> Then: As stated I don't personally see the need to have
>>>> tagging around.
>>>> Other than that, I'd like to have the "search" facility
>>>> located in some more
>>>> exposed position (in the main menu?) as "fallback" given
>>>> someone doesn't
>>>> find/want to search the section required... Search does
>>>> also search the
>>>> admin_gui itself and not just the tags added to pages,
>>>> doesn't it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> * Performance -- it's not good right now, it will be
>>>>> MUCH better
>>>>> when it's not a prototype (note: it also doesn't
>>>>> help that this
>>>>> prototype is running on a small desktop machine over
>>>>> a DSL-line...
>>>>> ;) ).
>>>>>
>>>> Been testing it using a thin DSL line myself, I think it's
>>>> not all that bad
>>>> either. ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> * Ajax for updating tags and other portions of the
>>>>> screen is not
>>>>> implemented
>>>>>
>>>> Though I generally like AJAX being used in tools like this,
>>>> I surely would
>>>> enjoy seeing features like this dumped for the sake of
>>>> performance in final
>>>> release. Glassfish v2 admin_gui was quite a pleasant and
>>>> usable experience
>>>> but also had some minor glitches eventually could be done
>>>> better (log
>>>> viewer, in example). From that point of view, less AJAX for
>>>> the sake of an
>>>> admin_gui as light and responsive as somewhat possible
>>>> seems desirable... In
>>>> my opinion (even though drastically limited in terms of
>>>> features), the ui of
>>>> tomcat lambdaprobe management UI (lambdaprobe.org
>>>> <http://lambdaprobe.org>) still somewhat shines
>>>> even obviously discontinued...
>>>>
>>>> Oh well, I'll better stop muttering now... :) Keep up the
>>>> good work, all the
>>>> best!
>>>> K.
>>>>
>>>>
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